"Major Quisling," said the London Times last week, "has added a new word to the English language. . . . Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous. Visually it has the supreme merit of beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms and quilp. . . *
"Major Quisling is to be congratulated. He has performed the rarish feat of turning a proper name into a common one, and in so doing has made sure that in a future life he will find himself in a distinguished circle. In addition to Captain Boycott, Aloysius Hansom will be there; also those two redoubtable Scots, Charles M. Macintosh and John Loudon McAdam; and the first Lord Brougham and the fourth Earl of Sandwich and the great Duke of Wellington in his famous boots. . . ."
Although the Times could still be whimsical about it, Major Vidkun Quisling's treachery in hamstringing Norse defenses the week before gave Europe a first-rate shock. "QUISLINGS EVERYWHERE," headlined the London Times, while all over the Continent governments went hunting for those malcontents in their midst who might open the gates to the enemy.
> In Yugoslavia, ex-Premier Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich was clapped into protective custody.
> The Swiss arrested a Lieut. Colonel Hans Trueb, who was said to have confessed that he was spying for "a certain foreign power." Last July one Alfred Zander, a little man with big ambitions, who headed The League of Faithful Confederates, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, and last month a second would-be Führer named Robert Tobler, whose party is called the National Front, was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Last week the Swiss Government warned its citizens to disregard any purported "official" orders not to resist invaders: Switzerland would resist any invader to the end.
> In Sweden, Göring's man Sven Olaf Lindholm was at last reports still at large.
> The Netherlands did not arrest its black-shirted onetime waterworks engineer, Anton Adrian Missert (TIME, April 22), but old Dutch General Jonkheer W. Roell, a retired fire-eater who once commanded the Army, growled that shootin' was too good for traitors. He would hang 'em. The Netherlands declared a state of siege, began raiding Dutch Nazis' homes for arms and uniforms.
> Hungary has had "Big Führer" Ferenc Szalasi, of the Hungarian National Socialists, in jail for two years, but still at large was Szalasi's No. 2 man, Kálmán Hubay. Since the leader's incarceration Hungary's Green Shirts have changed their greeting from "Heil Szalasi!" to "Kitartás!" ("Hold out!").